Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Life at Grab

Grab is Southeast Asia's Leading Online to Offline (O2O) mobile platform. Grab is the region's everyday super app that provides services that matter the most to consumers. Through its open platform strategy, Grab works with partners to provide safe, accessible and affordable transport, food, package, grocery delivery, mobile payment and financial services to millions of Southeast Asians. Grab aims to create 100 million micro-entrepreneurs through its ecosystems.

Get to know the team

Grab is committed to building a leading O2O platform in Southeast Asia, where the efficiency of the platform is a crucial factor in measuring business capabilities. This team provides routing/navigation/ETA capabilities for different business verticals (transport, food delivery, express delivery, etc.). The goal is to provide the most effective and reliable routing/navigation to achieve higher platform efficiency.

Get to know the role

Here you will be deeply involved in the development of cutting-edge routings/navigation algorithms and research in the geography industry, get closer to the core indicators of the business, and use massive amounts of real data to explore their relevance to reality. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to drive Grab's business growth through bit by bit insight and finally see the improvement of business indicators.

We are looking for a backend engineer to build our navigation product to help our driver partners to finish their jobs in a most effective way. We will need your excellent engineering skills to improve our navigation experience (scene refinement, navigation positioning, guidance optimization, user customization, interaction with realtime singles, instrumentation & analytics etc.). And also we would like you to give full play to your talents, boldly propose creative ideas, and practice them with team members.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• Covering the services including routing, ETA, nav, traffic, positioning etc.
• Evaluate technology stacks for increasing performance and scalability.
• Develop the AI skills for auto root cause analysis.
• Build the data isolation for the new market expansion.
• Take the oncall to address key issues being escalated from the market.

The must have

• Experience in developing and maintaining large scale micro-services.
• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Passionate about building products and features to accelerate business growth
• You can be a good coder in any programming language, but willing to work on Golang. Proficiency in Golang will be a strong advantage.

The Nice-to-Haves

• Background/experience in GEO, e.g. navigation, routing, mapping.
• Good data analytical skills.
• Familiarity with cloud systems such as AWS or Azure.

Our Commitment

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.

We recognize that with these individual attributes come different workplace challenges, and we will work with Grabbers to address them in our journey towards creating inclusion at Grab for all Grabbers.